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Photo by Tyler Bird.
“Brighton Beach is one of the biggest Russian-speaking communities on the east coast. ATI took a trip down there last week. As we sat adjacent to the Atlantic, drinking Baltika beers and hearing the Russian chatter around us, it was hard not to feel transported to another world.”
Chris Altman and Savannah Cox took a trip to Brighton Beach with photographer Tyler Bird and interviewed Russian and Ukranian expats for this photo essay.
Art double-headers: Like John Lurie’s opening of an exhibition of his prints on the same night as a performance of his Strange and Beautiful music at le poisson rouge, an exhibition of new works by artist Wayne White will be presented in conjunction with a screening of Beauty is Embarrassing, the 2009 documentary about White’s career as an artist.
Q&A will follow the documentary featuring panelists Wayne White, film director Neil Berkeley, designer Todd Oldham, and curator and arts writer Miriam Katz. Follow this link to purchase tickets. facebook event
Invisible Ruler at Joshua Liner Gallery
Sep 11th, 2014 // 6pm-8:30pm
SVA Theater, 333 W 23rd Street, Manhattan
Photos by NC Debord. The oyster table by Maison Premiere.
TASTE Williamsburg/Greenpoint is an event food lovers look forward to every year. What could be more inviting than to sample food and drink from over 50 local restaurants, bakeries, wineries, breweries, and soft drink makers on the banks of the East River State Park? The feast’s emphasis on local products and restaurants is what really makes this event intimate and special. The fact that all the profits go to the completion of the Northside Town Hall Community and Cultural Center is just the sweet caramel icing on the date cake. Among the new establishments that joined the party this year were farm-to-table restaurant Delaware and Hudson, Franklin Street’s Viking-chic bar and restaurant, Dirck the Norseman, and Dona Chai, a maker of chai tea concentrate.
I started my sampling with an elegant and refreshing yellow pepper gazpacho with nuggets of fresh shrimp meat from The Elm. Nearby, Cubana Social offered a traditional gazpacho, a little peppery with robust flavors. Why stop at two starters when you can have three? I grabbed a bite of Hotel Delmano’s fig and cheese wrapped in thin slices of Sorrento ham, and I knew I was in the right place at the right time.
Photo by Mara Catalan
Check out Dog Food Issue #3 for an article called “Vanishing Worlds” by Laura Demarco, a rumination on Brooklyn of the 90s, what has been done to it, and how it is changed today. Photographs by Williamsburg photographer Mara Catalan.
“You Have The Right To The Pursuit Of Happiness. Good Luck With That. You Have the Right to Bear Arms ” -by John Lurie (21″x30″, ink jet print on archival rag paper. ©)
Strange & Beautiful will open on September 9 with a 6pm gallery opening at The Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge. The installation, titled “The Other Side of The Great Wall of Fuck”, will feature limited edition prints of Lurie’s paintings. Often surreal and kaleidoscopic, the work revels in the unexpected, the improvisatory, turning the cherished image in on itself toward an uncanny valley of objects and things, oddly juxtaposed and phrased in familiar terms.
Prior to focusing on painting, Lurie led the band The Lounge Lizards, which went on to make music for 20 years. During this time, Lurie recorded 22 albums and composed scores for over 20 movies, including Stranger than Paradise, Down by Law, Mystery Train, Clay Pigeons, Animal Factory, and Get Shorty, which earned him a Grammy nomination. Lurie also starred in three films directed by Jim Jarmusch, as well as a host of other films. He wrote, directed and starred in the cult classic “Fishing with John,” a series that is now part of The Criterion Collection. Lurie is also responsible for the incredible music of Marvin Pontiac, “one of the most enigmatic geniuses of modern music.”